Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 2 | Africa 's needs in the area of remote sensing were highlighted at the conference by Bernard Sikilo , director general of Kenya 's remote-sensing centre in Nairobi . |
| 3 | Other unusual works by Carel Weight were executed at the height of the London blitz , and recorded events which showed how civilians were often more at risk than the forces . |
| 4 | Other unusual works by Carel Weight were executed at the height of the London blitz , and recorded events which showed how civilians were often more at risk than the forces . |
| 5 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 6 | In 1836 , the Bill now having been passed , he suggested to Gladstone that there ought to be more enfranchisement to cure the effects of it ; if the pyramid were extended at the base and the lower classes given some power , this would counter the preponderance of the manufacturers . |
| 7 | We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities . |
| 8 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 9 | They were first styled nobiles viri only in 1256 , and a tendency towards a late crystallization of a titled noblesse at this level is found in much of south-west France , with the possible exception of the vicomté of Béarn and other areas where primogeniture and impartible inheritance were established at an earlier date . |
| 10 | A total of 24 proposed revisions to the draft Basic Law were approved at the final BLDC plenum . |
| 11 | And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been . |
| 12 | The statutes of the institute were altered at the same time to give Servan-Schreiber executive control . |
| 13 | Some steps against pluralism were taken at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , but an altogether more far-reaching measure was promulgated at the Council of Lyons in 1274 . |
| 14 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 15 | Jessica and her 18-hand Grand Prix winning Diamond Exchange were pipped at the post by Irish colleague Cpt John Ledingham from Dublin with Kilbaha . |
| 16 | Where the earlier forms of corporal punishment were directed at the body of the convict , disciplinary punishment aimed , via the body , at the ‘ soul ’ of the offender . |
| 17 | The population were kept at a pre-technological level of civilization , with android advisers to make their lives easy . |
| 18 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 19 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 20 | During 1989 calls for an international conference were repeated at the European Communities ( EC ) summit in Madrid , the Paris summit of the seven major industrial countries and the Arab League summit in Casablanca , as well as by the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Serum samples for measurement of bismuth were collected from 46 patients of whom 25 were in the bismuth group ; only those from the bismuth group were analysed at the end of the study . |
| 22 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 23 | Numerous petitions concerning the forest were presented at the parliaments of this reign and the beginning of the next . |
| 24 | A range of projects funded by ESRC as part of its AIDS initiative were represented at the seminar , as were projects funded by other organisations . |
| 25 | NEW uniforms for Ballinacross Accordion Band were dedicated at a service in Knockloughrim Maghera yesterday . |
| 26 | If only Lorrimer 's body were sprawled at the bottom of the clunch pit . |
| 27 | The guarantee and the charge were executed at the bank in the presence of the bank manager . |
| 28 | While asleep , Stages 1 , 2 and REM were reduced at the expense of Stages 3 and 4 , which were maintained at baseline levels . |
| 29 | Later , an American naval officer and his wife were arrested at a roadblock . |
| 30 | For a couple of years the low cliffs of unconsolidated coombe rock and brickearth were eroded at the rate of 3.5–6m ( 12–20 ft ) per year before they were boarded in and a new groyne system established . |